Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings (thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Preferred term

Mastocytosis  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A rare neoplastic disorder characterized by a clonal proliferation of MAST CELLS, associated with KIT-D816 mutations, and accompanied by aberrant mast cell activation. The abnormal increase of MAST CELLS may occur in only the skin (MASTOCYTOSIS, CUTANEOUS), in extracutaneous tissues involving multiple organs (MASTOCYTOSIS, SYSTEMIC), or in solid tumors (MASTOCYTOMA).

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-XF3F638R-F

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 4/7/86, last modified 7/7/21